A Snapshot of My Day

Hey there, you! How's life? My life is good, although... I do find myself making a lot of drafts for blog posts without publishing them. Which is bad, of course-- I end up forgetting if I've mentioned something or not or make references to things I've never said. *Sigh* It was just like this on my vlog.

I really should stop talking about my vlog, it's like talking about your ex with your current romantic counterpart.

Okay, so I found this really cool blog from a magazine, it's called http://colormekatie.blogspot.com/, and it's this woman who does lots of different kinds of art-- photography and collage and street art, heaps of different stuff. And I was looking through her blog and was suddenly overcome by the urge to paint. This is what it looks like so far:

Yeah, so not that great yet. But I'm going to do a lot more flowers of different colors. I wish I had started with some kind of trellis in the background but it's too late for that now.

Here are some random photos of my life right now.

This is the Christmas tree that's been in my room for four months. I kind of need to put it back in storage.

This is my new hippie bag! Well, it's not new, exactly. It was my sister's, but she didn't ever use it, and I loved it, so she gave it to me. Cool, huh?

Above is my older purse. You can't tell from the photo, but it's supposed to be several shades darker than it is. I, ah, didn't know that you shouldn't wash imitation leather in the laundry. Oops.

 Yum! Cinnamon toast for dinner! :9

Last but not least, my Sketchbook, all wrapped up and ready to go to its new home. I will miss you, Sketchbook!

Yep, that's it. That's what I've done today. I'll see you whenever.

Bye bye!

Fun with Photos!

Hi everyone! How are you? Yes, I myself am quite excellent. It's been a good day.

I have nothing interesting to talk about today. Nothing, at least, that I find interesting... -.- I'm beginning to see a pattern here. This is just what I would say on my vlog! Nooooo I don't want this to be like my vlog... If it is, I'll just end up embarrassed and feeling foolish.

Oh well. I shouldn't worry so much. I'll just end up getting wrinkles. And we all know, wrinkles are bad. Hmmm what to talk about today...? My little sister and I have been goofing off recently and dressing up like famous people and then taking photos in imitation of them. Here let me see...

Cool eh? I'm Ellie Goulding! Heehee.

She's Lily Collins! Ta daaa!

Yeah we have heaps of fun. This is really all I've done productive today, and its productivity is debatable. Enjoy!

Hehe I Sound Like a Fashion Blogger, but... Style Haul!

One day I hope to own a great and beastly camera. Like one of those scary ones where you have to change the lenses, or that come with tripods. That way, I will be able to take good pictures. Not crappy fuzzy ones like I take now with our family camera.

See, I was taking photos of some of my new and not-so-new clothes, and just grew frustrated with the camera for being so dumb. Anyway, I want to show you these photos. I am so proud of them. My clothes, not the photos. The photos are terrible.

These two are of a shirt I just got today. It's very nice, I like the nautical sort of look to it. Of course, I like anything that is considered "nautical." A while ago, one of my favorite stores had a "Nautical Shop" and I just loved everything in it, even if it really had nothing to do with the ocean or boats or whatever "nautical" really means. But really, I like the navy and white stripes on this, even though normally I avoid clothing with white stripes. After you wash them, the white stripes invariably turn to whatever the other color is and look rather dingy. You can't tell, but the sleeves have little button tabs on them for rolling the sleeves. I don't know if they're just for decoration or if they actually function as buttons. But overall, I think it's a really nice shirt. It is thick enough to wear without a tank top underneath, which is definitely a plus. I can never find shirts that are thick enough material, long enough, and good collared enough that I can wear it just by itself, without a tank top or a camisole. And this one fits the bill! (What does that mean? What bill?) So far, at least. I haven't washed it yet.

This one isn't so great. My grandmother gave me a bunch of her old clothes, and it was among them. It's not meant to be tied like that, so it looks rather odd. It's a "western shirt" I believe. I would just call it a button-down, if I spoke of it, but I suppose that's not very specific.

This too was my grandmother's. The color isn't really in style, it's rather itchy, and it makes me look tubby. Well, that's not so much the dress as me expanding my rib cage so that the belt would stay on. I despise that belt. I bought it at the store and went up to the cash register and the woman there was all like, "You know this is a plus size belt, right?" and I, being the bright spark of brilliance that I am, replied, "Oh, yeah. Uh, that's why I want it." and so was stuck with a belt that I can only wear on my hips at the tightest setting.

So yeah. I received a few other dresses and shirts and stuff, but I don't think I'll post them. These are my favorites.

See ya!

Booooored So I'm Making a Blog Post!

So howzitgoin? Yeah, I'm pretty bored too. But, now that we got a new powercord for the other laptop, I can play on the computer without having to wait for someone else to get off. It's WUNdaful!

What I've been doing mostly is surfing fashion blogs. I didn't know they existed before I started reading Teen Vogue, and then it was all like, "fashion blogger this, fashion blogger that." So I started looking at some of them, and they're really cool! I wish I was cool enough to be a fashion blogger... But I never could, I don't know very much about fashion. I mean, everyone around here says I do, but this is a tiny town where most girls are more concerned with fishin' and huntin'. Well, I suppose that's not really fair. But still, I don't know of anyone who knows what a Peter Pan collar is. (which, incidentally, I don't really like.) Oh they'll follow various trends blindly, but very few people here have real style. And most of the people that do are my friends.

Ah, I'm so lucky to have such cool friends. Haha I remember saying something on my vlog about how I was abandoning all my friends. I didn't realize it at the time, but I didn't have that many friends to start off with, so that didn't work out so great. But I don't think anyone really watched my vlog, so it doesn't matter what I said.

Anyways, QK look it's a ninja!!! That never gets old.

Well I must go now and get the mail and actually get up out of bed and stuff.

Bye bye!

Rambling... Again

"What have you been doing lately, CityForStrangers?" Well, since you asked so very sincerely, I'll tell you. Yesterday we had a whole bunch of family over for Easter, but no egg hunt, because it rained. The food was good, but other than that it was quite boring. But, afterward, my sister and I had a "photo shoot" where we just piled all our clothes together and dressed up and took photographs. I might post pics of it, but I had just planned to post them on facebook.

"How are your bunnies coming?" Eh, not that great to be honest. They look fine, but they lack a certain life that my previous efforts possessed. I was looking at my bunny post on here, and I think the old ones look better. Hmm that reminds me, I'll be right back.

Hooray for drawing!

More Emoticons

Have I mentioned that I love Pandora? The website, not the science-fictional planet of blue people, nor the mythical moron. I love being able to find new music according to a certain criteria. For example, at this very moment I listen to my station, Indie Folk and Welcome Home by Radical Face, which I d^.^b <-- that's a thumbs up by the way. Have I mentioned that I love emoticons? Oh wait, I have mentioned that, never mind.

ANYWAY, listening to Pandora reminds me that I love music. If you're wondering why I forgot that I love music, it's because I had to spend nine days at a mental hospital, COMPLETELY CUT OFF FROM MY BELOVED IPOD!!! And my family, of course, but that's a lot less dramatic. I missed my iPod, but I probably could have swallowed it and choked myself, so it wasn't allowed. Oh well. But now I have it back! But I haven't been listening to it much. But now I remember how much I love music! So I will.

Sometimes I think about what I want this blog to be about. But then I start contemplating how I love music and fashion and art and heaps of stuff I could never leave out if I chose one specific subject. So I'll just keep talking about whatever I want to talk about. So there. xP Hey look it's a mustache! :{o Ooh check this one out:

~~~~~~~^~~~~~\o/~~~~~~ Shark attack! Or:

(>^.^)># I made you a waffle!

Yes, my emoticons are expressive and not entirely original. But I did tweak them some to my preference. So there. No wait, I have some I forgot:

  ^.  .^_______$
(o  o)_______|
        vv         vv

Piggy! Or:

  (\   /)
(=o.o=)
(lll)   (lll)



Bunneeeeeeee! And those two are entirely original. I only hope the blog thingy won't push them all over to the side like they did on my phone.

This post wasn't meant to be about emoticons, but who am I to challenge the movements of fate? Ha, isn't that a good excuse to be lazy. "Oh I'm not fated to do the laundry! Who am I to challenge the movements of fate?"

Ah well, goodbye!

Just Checking In

Well hello there dahhling! Goodness me, it has been a long time since my last blog post. Oh well, I'm here now, have you missed me? Of course you haven't. I don't think anyone reads this blog, even my family.

Sooooo how have you been? Yeah I'm not very into this. I just wrote a really long..... I don't know what to call it. See I do this thing where I pull up a Word document and I type about how I'm feeling today. Then I skip a line and reply to myself and give myself advice and just generally say the kind of things I think my therapist would say. I call it "therapying myself," but that's not really a good name. Anyway, I had a good long talk with myself about real therapy today and everything we spoke of and all. It was immensely satisfying. But now all my writing muscles are sore and I'm just not sure I can make a good blog post. Hmm what can I talk about? Hmmmm...

Well, I haven't boughten any.... Is that a word? Boughten? Firefox says it isn't. ANYWAY, I haven't bought any new music lately, not since my most excellent purchase of Sigh No More by Mumford and Sons, January by Cara Salimando, and A Thousand Years by Christina Perri. I gotta say, I hate the Twilight movies, but I love myself some Christina Perri. So I got it anyway. I really want some more iTunes money so I can buy February by Cara Salimando. See she's doing this thing where, every month of 2012, she collaborates with a different person on a two-song EP. In doing this, she is expanding her musical style before her first full album even comes out. I really like it, except that it means I have to buy $15 in iTunes money every month. Because really, what normal person doesn't immediately spend every last $.74 of their iTunes money?

Well, my brother wants the computer, so I'd best skedaddle. Oh wow, that's a word and boughten is not? You are so fickle.